Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-02-10
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At Opera House in this city, Thursday,
March Il, 1887.

March II, 1887. sc
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Mrs. D. ". Hill is very sick. ST
J. d. Morris is convalescing. st
Fulton has a new fair association. :,
FoUND-A purse call at this Office. to
m. j. your obituary will appear G
next week. m
MEXICO must have a Mardi Gras
Lext year. sa
NJ. Nelson's saw mill is doing a tn
big business. or
If Mexico don't boom this spring ~
we are gone ~. "
Jefferson City is to have street cars 7,
and w~ater-works. !,
LosT-A cane. marked J.. W. ID. or
Return to this office.
BABIES should have the benefit l
of any and all doubts. pa
Born, to DR.. and Mrs. W. T. Lem
on, Monday, a daughter. =,
DR.. Gartrell's loss has beer adjust tie
ed by Kllgore & Howell. so
Feb. 22nd is Washington's birth az
day. Lent begins on the 23d.
w. W. Harper is in St. Louis 10
buying a full line of spring goods. ."
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The Stoddert Society meets at an
Mrs, j.. D. Mckee's at 2 p. m. Thurs M.
day. mr.
Born, to 0. p. Campbell and wife, tn
formerly of this city, now of Kansas,
girl. he
The entertainment of the season be
will be the Bensberg concert Friday WIS
night. ar
The combination horse sale will of
take place at L. B. Morris livery
stable. NJ
r. Hildeband has a sale l 1-2 miles I
southeast of Benton, Friday, Febru- VIZ
airy 18th.
You can get pants at Brickey's
from Sc up. He will make you a of
first class fit.
The Southern Bank is having a pr
new Autograph made of ex-Gov. G.
II. Hardin to be used ON their drafts. he
r. NJ. White, Chief of the Fire co
company, is arranging to have an
electric fire alarm bell put in his resi- in
dence. &c
Congress has only to quietly wait
and pass a few more pension bills by
and the surplus problem will settle 1t
itself.
E. C. Wilson, 10 miles north of tn
this city, broke his leg at the hip a
Sunday, while feeding stock. He is bu
20 years old.
Mr.. F. NJ. Yeager, of this city, de- of
sires to number the houses of Mexico We
and will likely ask the permission Of nc
the council at their next meeting to ST
do the work, for which he will charge
the city proper, nothing. sa
Mrs. Rose, wife of Jacob Rose, a al
grocery merchant of this city, died ru
at 4 o'clock p. m. to-day, of cancer. I'll
She had been sick a long time and
had suffered as only those do who t
are afflicted with a cancer. a
James H. Blythe, of Mexico, and -,
Miss Bette Belle, of the same place, !"
who were born on the End day of
Feb, 1857 and 1867 respectively, will of
unite in holy wedlock Feb. 10, 1887. L
r. E. Gillum, of the NJ. E. Church, &C
officiating. ~
Potts & Surber have bought the in
milling property of NJ. NJ. Conger on
North jefferson street, and will OPP r.
crate the same as a feed mill, while ",
the -four milling apparatus will be "
taken by Mr.. Conger to Sumner, =;
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Charlton Co, Mo. :,
B. B. Tureman has our thanks for
an Ell Paso, Texas, paper. The ~
excursion party reached El Paso on =,
the 10Th. In the party were the u
following parties from Mexico: B. :.
B. Tnreman, DR.. Z. S. Baker, r. r. :,
Arnold and j. NJ. Menefee.
j. r. Luckie gets to the front in b
the LEDGER this week with an adj Il
vertisement. Luckie is known to all J
of our readers as a reliable and square L
dealing business man. He has open k
up a first-class line of fresh groceries "
and is worthy of public patronage.
Henry Clay Dean, the noted, II
though eccentric lawyer, died on n
Sundry last, at his farm, "Rebel's "
Cave Putnam county. Owing to a d
disregard for his personal appearance s
in the way of wearing soiled linen, he
gained the sobriquet of Dirty b
Shirt" Dean, which stuck TO him O
through life. Il
The following contracts for carry b
ing the mail for the lex four years P
have been made as so much per q
annum: Mexico to Victor, j.. B. b
Colegrove S249.00; Mexico to Long Q
Branch, j. H. Davis S2G7. 90; Mexico
TO foungers, F. W. Kearny s15S.00;
Vandalia to Mount Carmel, F. W. t
Kearney $685. e. b
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